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Establishing Cybersecure Lines of Defense
As we covered in our last post, one of the best ways to avoid falling prey to cybercriminals is to “think before you click” within incoming emails, to avoid reacting to an increasing abundance of phishing scams arriving in your inbox. Once you’re in the habit of watching for suspicious subject lines before even opening an email, how can you further differentiate legitimate queries from phishing most foul? BE ON HIGH ALERT...
A Cybersecurity Tip: First, Count to Ten
As it turns out, a timeless technique for managing your temper is equally excellent advice for safeguarding your online security in today’s fast-paced world. Just as we’re advised to “count to ten” in the heat of an argument, it’s increasingly imperative to “think before you click” on incoming emails, to avoid falling for email phishing scams on the rise. After all, we’re all human; none of us is immune from occasionally...
3 Things: Reading History, Writing Email, and Getting Things Done
We are trapped in the “Never-Ending Now,” consuming only social media content created within the last 24 hours 1. The Never-Ending Now (David Perell, 11/13/2018) “You are what you consume. End of story. Here’s Tim Wu writing in The Attention Merchants: ‘Any and all information that one consumes—pays attention to—will have some influence… As William James observed, we must reflect that, when we reach the end of our days, our life experience will equal what we have...
3 Things: Time lapses, ‘buy & hold’, and are you average?
November 13, 2018
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Three incredible time lapses to watch on past and future trends
1. Trends & Time Lapses (A Wealth of Common Sense, Ben Carlson, 11/11/2018)
Forward-looking population distribution in the U.S.
How stock market valuations have changed by country since 2007
The change in the top 10 countries by GDP every year from 1960 to 2017
‘Buy and Hold’ (and Rebalance) is still your best bet – here’s why
2. Why You Should Stick With ‘Buy and...
Dimensional Fund Advisors: Midterm Elections – What Do They Mean for Markets?
Midterm Elections—What Do They Mean for Markets? NOVEMBER 01, 2018 For the upcoming midterms, commentators are likely to offer opinions on who will win and what impact the vote will have on markets. Looking at returns since 1926 shows that months when midterm elections took place did not tend to have returns that different than any other month. OPEN PDF: Midterm Elections—What Do They Mean for Markets SAGE Serendipity: If you don't need the latest...
What Sheri’s Reading
Investing Stuff: A Matter of Perspective (Sam Ro, Managing Editor of @YahooFinance) Same chart, two lenses pic.twitter.com/JfoOyRF1VI — Sam Ro (@bySamRo) October 26, 2018 The Psychology of Sitting in Cash, Part Deux (A Wealth of Common Sense, Ben Carlson, 10/28/2018) Some considerations for those who are sitting on a big pile of cash or are thinking about raising cash now that we’re in the midst of another correction. Calendar Years are Arbitrary (The Belle Curve, Blair Duquesnay,...
SageBroadview Welcomes Associate Adviser Karina Salés
Please join us in welcoming Karina Salés to the role of Associate Adviser with SageBroadview. She will be physically located in our Morristown, NJ office but will travel to our Farmington, CT and Burlington, MA offices as needed. She is already busy assisting us with the array of financial planning support services that are essential to our personalized client care. If you’re in the neighborhood, feel free to stop by...
3 Things: About Last Week
The market meltdown everyone saw coming 1. Explaining the Correction with Perfect Hindsight (Barry Ritholtz, 10/15/2018) “We interrupt this regularly scheduled correction to bring you an after the fact narrative explaining in great detail and with utter certainty what just occurred in the markets, and why.” A bright side to last week’s pain 2. Who Benefits From a Market Correction? (A Wealth of Common Sense, Ben Carlson, 10/12/2018) “The swift market sell-off we’ve experienced this week is painful for anyone in...